Advanced Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Composer's notes: 'Once I received the commission by HD duo to compose a piece for sax and piano, I asked Michael Duke to select for me his favourite multiphonics for alto sax and send me a recording...

In 1989 when Louis Andriessen was teaching at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Miles Davis' Autobiography was published. While reading it, he suddenly knew what the subject of his piece fo...

The piece "Bulgaresque No. 3" is part of a cycle of chamber music works composed for a variety of ensembles. These pieces are influenced by contemporary Bulgarian music, characterized as a kind of "ja...

A lamentation which speaks for itself: the sadness, the anger, the mourning and finally the resignation. This composition was written on request of, and in close collaboration with saxophonist Femke I...

Jörg Widmann, an internationally sought-after soloist and professor of clarinet at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, displays the exquisite refinement of contemporary clarinet sound in 'Fünf Bruchstücke'...

Over the years, the saxophone quartet genre had been rather foreign to me – until I heard the Kebyart Ensemble. The homogeneity and virtuosity of the sound of these four young Catalan saxophonists mad...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

This piece was written for Roger Bobo. The tuba, invented around 1830 has no original baroque repertoire, so these Variations in Olden Style were conceived after the Polonaise of the French Suite VI b...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

Nordlys ("Northern Lights") is a journey through the soundscapes of the north, guided by the rune Raidho, the symbol of movement and inner search. The work follows four stages, like the phases of an i...

In 'Afterlife', the composer describes his impressions at death and the afterlife. The work is based on the Dies Irae motif, which has often been used throughout music history to represent death. Dif...

Legend tells that one day a merchant from Scherpenheuvel was returning home in the evening. In a forest, he was ambushed by robbers. The merchant attacked the robbers and even wounded two of them, but...